[German]Good news for users of Windows 7 SP1 and possibly Windows Server 2008 R2. There is probably an increasing demand to continue to operate these operating systems, which have long since reached their end-of-life (EOL), securely. ACROS Security has now announced that it will support these Windows versions with 0patch until January 2027.
[German]Microsoft will soon block Microsoft Teams clients that have not been updated for 90 days. On July 1, 2025, however, users who are still using the old Microsoft Teams Classic (1.0) client are threatened with the end. After this date, this client will no longer be available and will no longer work. An update to the Teams New (2.0) client will be required.
[German]I have just come across information about a vulnerability in the Microsoft Telnet server. The vulnerability is said to allow a -Click-NTLM Authentication Bypass. Fortunately, only old systems up to Windows Server 2008 R2 are affected. Telnet should be deactivated an such old Windows servers, in case, it's activated.
[German]A nasty surprise for some clinics and their IT departments. Maintenance technicians from the US provider Oracle unintentionally deleted critical resources during support. As a result, the IT "lights went out" at 45 clinics that were Oracle customers. Oracle Health was no longer running. The clinics had to fiddle with paper and pencil for days. Go to the cloud, they said in IT, you're not responsible there.
[German]The developers of Kali Linux have frozen their repository for a few days, meaning that updates to the operating system may fail. The reason for this is a lost repository key for signing the files.
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[German]Microsoft offers a so-called hot patching option to Windows Server 2025, so that restarts can be suspended during the monthly security updates. Redmond has now announced that this feature need a subscription ans will be charged from July 1, 2025 onwards.
[German]New appraisal system: Microsoft wants to get rid of "underperformers "Microsoft management has plans to get rid of some of its employees who are underperforming. To this end, a new appraisal system is being introduced in the 51st year of the company's history to identify such employees. This emerges from an internal email to managers, which is available to Business Insider.
[German]Sobering figures and a "slap in the face for Microsoft". Their CoPilot, offered by Sauer-Bier, has been stuck at 20 million weekly users for a year now. OpenAI, on the other hand, can look back on increasing user numbers with ChatGPT and currently has 400 million active users per week.
[German]I'm going to combine some problem reports in the Windows Server environment into one collective post. A blog reader informed me yesterday that Microsoft OneDrive was crashing under Windows Server 2016. And I got a report about OneDrive issues during the weekend. I also saw a report on the patchmanagement.org mailing list about a boot loop on Windows Server 2019 in connection with the April 2025 security updates. The question is whether there are more people affected.
[German]I'm dropping an observation here in the blog that a blog reader pointed out to me by email. The preview update KB5055629 released for Windows 11 23H2 could cause "collateral damage". The reader ran into problems with the unintentionally activated weather widget, which made it difficult to log out.
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